Learning Health System - National Summit - May 2012

Dr. Charles Friedman chaired the planning committee for a two-day summit convened by the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation that brought together over 80 prominent individuals in health care.

Learning Health Sciences

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Introduction

In May 2014, the Department of Medical Education became the Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS). We are a basic science department focused on the learning sciences, applied to health, at all levels of scale. DLHS engages colleagues across the entire University of Michigan Health Sciences community, the state, the nation, and the globe.

The department is organized into three sub-units:

The Division of Professional Education, which focuses on learning by individuals and teams (which may include individuals from multiple health professions);

The Clinical Simulation Center, which focuses on learning by individuals and teams in environments that model the real world of practice; and

The Division of Learning and Knowledge Systems, which focuses on learning at the organizational level (which may be a single hospital or a complex institution) and by ultra-large scale systems (which may span the state, nation, or world).

News

Department Chair Charles Friedman, PhD, was invited speaker to the two-day Spring 2015 Symposium coordinated by Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers. Dr. Friedman will speak on March 30 on a panel titled "Learning Health Systems Initiatives," which includes colleagues from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Flatiron, and American Society of Clinical Oncology.